BIO

Sly, smart, and exceedingly silly, Sean Conroy is a gifted comedian with an impressive skill set: Writer, Stand-up, Improviser, Actor, Podcaster. Sean has written for Adult Swim,Comedy Central, Seeso, MTV, Spike TV, UPN, NBC and ABC. Most recently he was Head Writer and Co-Executive Producer for 4 seasons of the cult hit Adult Swim show Mr. Pickles, an animated show about a dog who worships Satan and is a serial killer.

During that time he was also Head Writer and Executive Producer for Gentleman Lobsters, an animated show for the late-lamented Seeso network about two millennial bros who just happen to be… lobsters.

As a Stand-Up, Conroy has been featured on Comedy Central and Conan O'Brien. He wrote his own one-man show, Taught, that went to the HBO Comedy Festival in Aspen, CO. As an Improviser, Sean is a regular performer in ASSSSCAT, the flagship show at the UCB Theater; in fact, the UCB asked him to perform in their live special, taped in 2007. He is a founding member of "The SWARM", the legendary “first-ever house team” at the UCB Theater.

He has performed a variety of roles (most of which fall under the umbrella he calls “Weird Guy”) on all your favorite TV shows (Comedy Bang! Bang! ,Review with Forest MacNeil, War at Home, The Goldbergs, Working Class, Children’s Hospital, Love Inc….). He hosted the acclaimed podcast The Long Shot (Podcast) and created and co-hosted the podcast The Great American Cabinet of Curiosities, created and hosted the podcast Sean Conroy Gets Happier, and has recently co-created and is co-hosting a podcast called “CoPilots,” a show about television pilots. He’s been a regular on both improv4humans and The Andy Daly Podcast Pilot Project since their first episodes.

In addition to his decades of experience as a writer and performer, Sean started teaching a year after he got out of college, and he’s never really stopped. After a six-year career as a junior high school teacher in New York City, he started teaching at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theater, where he’s taught advanced-level improvisational comedy and sketch comedy writing classes for almost two decades. He has served as a consultant at both Columbia and NYU business schools. He’s taught classes in how to write a TV pilot for over a decade. He graduated from Holy Cross College with a B.A. in English.